The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-21

sold in Texas and Southwestern States. but IN
the last week the company has filed large
order from Pitfsburg Pa, and sent another
large order to New England.
The Jenny Electric-light Company has this
week received an additional order for ninety arc
tights from the San Diego Gas and Elec,ric-licht
Company, making total of 240 arc lights which
that company will use upon the streets and in
the stores of San Diego. Cal.
Nordyks & Marmon Company have, within
the last ten days, received orders for y-bar-
Mich; a thirty-barrel mill for Federasburg:
Md; fifty barrel mill for Nsphi, Utah. and
ffty-barrel mill for Waveland.
Three parties stand ready to purchase the old
of Illinois street and Kentucky avenue, at the
prices asked, if good title can be given Each
or the three proposes to erect fine block there
on il they can purchase the ground
The Haughville street-car line is proving q
great convenience to the employees in the shops
at Haughville In the morning the cars carry
ont from the city about 300 passengers, aud
bring in that number st night; running extra
cars at such times to accommodate them.
d. E. Stone g. Co, manufacturers OF fancy
desks and tables, are pressed with work that
thew keen running until o'clock every night,
making seven days each week. Within the last
thirty days they have shipped their goods to 107
different citiss and towns in tie country.
Kingan & Co. have awarded the contract to
light their immense establishment with the
Jenney electric light. 1t will require 200
lights. When this Improvement is made the
company will further increase their facilities
for slauehtering hogs. At the present time
they are killing 1000 hogs per day.
Budd 6 Co.. poultry packers. now giving
employment TO sixty persons Recently thoy
have commenced employing women for dressing
poultry dry. They have twenty women picking
chickens, and they do more rapid work than
men. The work is done by the piece. and some
Of the women make $18 and $40 Ger week.
the indianapolis cabinet works now have or
ders which would keep them running eighteen
months were they to take more. Last Sat
urday the company shipped a carload of desks
to Washington. ID. c., to go into the offices of
the War Department. and to-day they ship
car load to San Francisco. aud one to Los Ange-
les.
Since April / Geisendorff e Co. have been
running their wooden mill until 10 o'clock at
night, and would run it all night but find it diff
fcult to get female employees that are willing to
work all night. A large per cent. Of their en-
ployes women. This firm is now booking
orders which they can not fill until next Febru-
airy.
Business men from other points, and more
pecially travelling statesmen, who drop in on In
diaDapolis express surprise at the activity no.
ticsable on all sides. Especially are they sur
prised that the manufacturing establishments.
almost without exception, are way behind in
their orders. although pushing their work to
their utmost capacity.
Mr.. Comstock. of the firm of Comstock &
Coonse says that for three weeks past the work
of sinking wells in Indianapolis has been going
on at the rate of three hundred wells per week.
and the last few days orders are coming in fasssr
than ever In many cases this means new
pumps, and consequently the pump manufactur-
ers are having lively trade.
Atkins e. Co. still crowded with work, and
have recently increased their force twenty men,
employing more men than at any previous time
in the history of the works. The two saws,
eighty eight inches IN diameter, which they
manufactured few weeks ago and put in serv-
ice. are working admirably. These saws were
twelve inches greater in diameter than any pre-